Problems With Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition

Many gamers are reporting serious issues with Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition. Currently, the problems being reported include issues with registration. After registering copies of the game, players are receiving an error stating “the CD key has already been registered with an account”. This is an unfortunate event and hopefully EA will comment on these issues soon. Complaints on the EA forums date back to the 17th with no updates from the company.

Here is what one perturbed gamer wrote:

Ok here’s the deal.. I just called their tech support line, waited the 1/2 hour and talked to some guy. Apparently the changes to the way EA did their site to where everything is now under your email address rather than your account name/screen name screwed things up. The guy I talked to said that my CD key is tired to my email address and not my screen name. If you were able to log into the game with your email address we’d probably all be good. Anyways, he’s now transferring my ticket to the accounts department to have my account name added to my CD key. He said this normally takes 24 to 48 hours but with all the problems with this POS game it may take upwards to a week.

After checking out EA’s customer service page, I found a few potential ways to fix the problem:

Sometimes patching or upgrading EA Download Manager can corrupt the record of your CD key.

If you encountered one of the above error messages when trying to join an online server game after upgrading or patching EA Download Manager, please try the following steps to resolve your issue (there are also files on the page you may need to download):

For Battlefield 2142 DVD edition, follow the steps below:

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.
2. Double-click the drive C:.
3. Double-click Programs Files.
4. Double-click Electronic Arts.
5. Double-click Battlefield 2142.
6. Double-click to open Support.
7. Double-click on the Battlefield 2142_code.exe file.
8. Input your Battlefield 2142 Registration Code.
Note: If you are not prompted to enter your code, skip to step 11.
9. Click Next.
10. Close My Computer.
11. Click on the Start button.
12. Click on Run.
13. Type regedit in the text field.

Warning: Changes to the registry can cause your computer to operate improperly, so please follow these instructions exactly as they are written.

Follow these steps to back-up the registry so that should something go wrong, you can restore your system back to a working state:
14. Click the Start button on the Windows Taskbar.
15. Select Run.
16. Type regedit into the available text field and press OK.
17. If you are using Windows 2000/XP/Vista, click on File, and select Export. Note: If you are using Windows 95/98/ME, click on Registry
18. Then select Export Registry.
19. Select All under Export Range.
20. Type backup into the File name field, and click Save.
21. Click the plus (+) sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
22. Click the plus (+) sign next to Software.
23. Click the plus (+) sign next to Electronic Arts.
24. Click the plus (+) sign next to EA Games.
25. Click the plus (+) sign next to Battlefield 2142.
26. Click on the ergc. On the right panel screen, double click on default.
27. You should see a code under Value Data.
28. Enter x9392 at left most part of the code. (eg. x9392DH34DF78WE35BV78AS69)
29. Click OK.

You may now start playing the game online.

Note: These files will only work with the english-US version of the game on the Windows operating system. Your game must be installed in the default location. If you have installed Battlefield 2142 to a custom directory please use the manual instructions above.

1. At the bottom of this answer in the File Attachments section you will find 2 files. (bf2142.bat and bf2142.reg )
2. Click on each file to save to the desktop.
3. Once both files have been downloaded double click on the bf2142.bat file.

Next please follow the steps below:

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.
2. Double-click drive C:.
3. Double-click Programs Files.
4. Double-click Electronic Arts.
5. Double-click Battlefield 2142.
6. Double-click to open Support.
7. Double-click on the Battlefield 2142_code.exe file.
8. Input your Battlefield 2142 Registration Code.
Note: If you are not prompted to enter your code, skip to step 11.
9. Click on next.
10. Close My Computer.
11. Click on the Start button.
12. Click on Run.
13. Type regedit in the text field.

Warning: Changes to the registry can cause your computer to operate improperly, so please follow these instructions exactly as they are written.

Follow these steps to back-up the registry so that should something go wrong, you can restore your system back to a working state:

14. Click the Start button.
15. Click on Run.
16. Type regedit into the available text field, and press OK.
17. If you are using Windows 2000/XP/Vista, click on File, and select Export. Note: If you are using Windows 95/98/ME, lick on Registry
18. Then select Export Registry.
19. Select All under Export Range.
20. Type backup into the File name field, and click Save.
21. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
22. Click the plus sign next to Software.
23. Click the plus sign next to Electronic Arts.
24. Click the plus sign next to EA Games.
25. Click the plus sign next to Battlefield 2142.
26. Click on the ergc. On the right panel screen, double click on default.
27. You should see a code under Value Data.
28. Enter x9392 at left most part of the code. (eg. x9392DH34DF78WE35BV78AS69)
29. Click OK

You may now start playing the game online.

EA Forums

Thanks for the tip Mike!